 He carries his persons indifferently through right and wrong, and at the close dismisses them without further care, and leaves their examples to operate by chance. This fault the barbarity of his age cannot extenuate, for it is always a writer's duty...  Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces - Page 107by Samuel Johnson - 1774 - 375 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 744 pages
...the wicked. He carries his persons indifferently through right and wrong, and at the close dismisses them without further care, and leaves their 'examples...always a writer's duty to make the world better, and justice is a virtue independent on tune or place. The plots are often so loosely formed that a very... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 754 pages
...the wicked. He carries his persons indifferently through right and wrong, and at the close dismisses them without further care, and leaves their examples...always a writer's duty to make the world better, and justice is a virtue independent on time or place. The plots are often so loosely formed that a very... | |
 | Gay Wilson Allen, Harry Hayden Clark - Literary Criticism - 1962 - 676 pages
...the wicked. He carries his persons indifferently through right and wrong, and at the close dismisses them without further care, and leaves their examples...always a writer's duty to make the world better, and justice is a virtue independent on time or place. The plots are often so loosely formed that a very... | |
 | Meyer Howard Abrams - Literary Criticism - 1971 - 420 pages
...of good or evil, nor is always careful to shew in the virtuous a disapprobation of the wicked. . . It is always a writer's duty to make the world better, and justice is a virtue independam on time or place.*T The pragmatic orientation, ordering the aim of the... | |
 | Vassilis Lambropoulos, David Neal Miller - Literary Criticism - 1987 - 552 pages
...distribution of good or evil, nor is always careful to shew in the virtuous a disapprobation of the wicked ... It is always a writer's duty to make the world better, and justice is a virtue independant on time or place.47 The pragmatic orientation, ordering the aim of... | |
 | Michael J. Sidnell - Drama - 1991 - 298 pages
...the wicked; he carries his persons indifferently through right and wrong, and at the close dismisses them without further care, and leaves their examples...always a writer's duty to make the world better, and justice is a virtue independent on time or place It will be thought strange that, in enumerating the... | |
 | Joseph F. Bartolomeo - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 228 pages
...wicked; he carries his persons indifferently through right and wrong, and at the close he dismisses them without further care, and leaves their examples to operate by chance. 123 Thus, not only conversational thrusts—which must always be regarded as occasional and provisional—but... | |
 | Brian Vickers - 1995 - 585 pages
...the wicked; he carries his persons indifferently through right and wrong, and at the close dismisses them without further care, and leaves their examples...always a writer's duty to make the world better, and justice is a virtue independant on time or place. The plots are often so loosely formed that a very... | |
 | Jean I. Marsden - Drama - 1995 - 214 pages
...the wicked; he carries his persons indifferently through right and wrong, and at the close dismisses them without further care, and leaves their examples to operate by chance" (Johnson on Shakespeare, 71). 21. Elizabeth Griffith, "Preface" to The Morality of Shakespeare's Drama... | |
 | Kevin Hart - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 254 pages
...faults is that 'he carries his persons indifferently through right and wrong, and at the close dismisses them without further care, and leaves their examples to operate by chance'. There is no point appealing to moral relativism, 'this fault the barbarity of his age cannot extenuate;... | |
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